The KSCO Community ksco

1. The KSCO Community http://ksco.info

2. KSCO – Previous Events • KSCO-1999 – International Workshop on Knowledge-Based Planning for Coalition Operations, May 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland. • Working parties proposed series of Coalition Experiments and Binni scenario adopted for community experimentation. • Working Group on KSCO formed and first meeting held to plan community activities. • 2000-2002 – Coalition experiments and multi-national joint experimentation across community. • KSCO-2002 – Second Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations, June 2002, Toulouse, France. • IEEE Intelligent Systems 2002, Special Issue on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations, Volume 17 Number 2, May/June 2002. • KSCO-2004 – Volume of Papers on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations, October 2004. Planned conference in Pensacola, Florida, USA cancelled during active hurricane season (Ivan in September 2004). • KSCO-2006 – Third Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations, part of IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems (DIS-2006), June 2006, Prague, Czech Republic. • KSCO-2007 – Fourth Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations, part of IEEE International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems Modeling, Evolution and Engineering (KIMAS-2007), May 2007, Waltham, MA, USA. • KSCO-2009 – Fifth Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations, March/April 2009, Southampton, UK. • KSCO-2010 – Sixth Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations, September 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada. • KSCO-2012 – Seventh Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations, February 2012, Pensacola, Florida, USA • IEEE Intelligent Systems 2013, Special Issue on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations, Volume 28 Number 1, Jan/Feb 2013. • KSCO-2016 – Eighth Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations, September 2016, London, UK. Co-located with 21st ICCRTS.

3. KSCO Working Group • Jean Berger (DRDC, Canada) • Liz Bowman (ARL, USA) • Jeff Bradshaw (IHMC, USA) • David Brown (MITRE, USA) • Richard Davis (DSTO, Australia) • Susan Davies (Southampton University, UK) • Roberto Desimone (QinetiQ, UK) • Jerry Dussault (AFRL, USA; TTCP Representative) • RoozbehFarahbod (DRDC, Canada) • Dan Fayette (AFRL, USA) • Scott Fouse (IS, USA) • Nort Fowler (AFRL, USA; now retired) • Uwe Glaesser (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada) • Tim Grant (Netherlands) • Vladimir Gordoteski (St. Petersburg Inst. for Info. and Automation, Russia) • Adel Guitouni (Previously DRDC, Canada; TTCP Representative) • Jim Hendler (University of Maryland, USA) • Justin T Henley (Dstl, UK) • Jan Jelínek (Honeywell, USA) • Vijay Kowtha (ONR Global/London, USA) • Dale Lambert (DSTO, Australia) • James Lawton (AFRL, USA) • Paul Losiewicz (EOARD/London, USA) • Barry McKinney (EOARD/London, USA) • Rick Metzger (AFRL, USA) • Jitu Patel (Dstl, UK) • Michal Pěchouček (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) • Martin Rehák (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) • Tony Rathmell (DSTL, UK) • Akexander Smirnov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) • Dan Sofge (NRL, USA) • Niranjan Suri (IHMC, USA) • Austin Tate (AIAI, University of Edinburgh, UK) • Gerhard Wickler (AIAI, University of Edinburgh, UK) Institutions and roles may not be current

4. KSCO Topics Innovative theory and techniques for formation of coalitions and similar “virtual organizations” Requirements for knowledge-based coalition planning and operations Knowledge-based approaches to command and control Knowledge-based approaches to coalition logistics Knowledge-based approaches to inter-agency and domestic operations Knowledge-based approaches to safety and security operations Knowledge-based decision support Coalition and inter-agencies modelling Applications and requirements for knowledge-based coalition planning Knowledge-based approaches to Operations-Other-Than-War Multi-agent systems and the concept of agency in coalitions Tools and techniques for knowledge-based simulation and modelling of coalition operations Security and maintenance of private information or knowledge in coalition operations Autonomous vs. centrally managed coalition operations Mobility, agile and autonomous computing in coalition operation Cyberspace issues for coalitions Complexity issues and scalability in coalition operations Cross-cultural issues in coalition operations Deployed systems, case studies

5. KSCO-2017 Track Papers KSCO - Coalition Information Handling, Situational Analysis & Decision Support Session Chair: Tim Grant 13:00: Karen Myers, Tim Ellis, TancredeLepoint, Ronald Moore, David Archer, Grit Denker, Steve Lu, Stephen Magill and RafailOstrovsky– Privacy Technologies for Controlled Information Sharing in Coalition Operations 13:30: Erica P. Viklund, Heather M. Oonk and Manuela Jaramillo – The Role of Transactive Memory (TM) in Proactive Decision Support (PDS) 14:00: Wen Zhou, WeidongBao, Xiaomin Zhu, Chao Chen, Zhu Wu and Changfei Wu – A Semantic-Based Information Integration Framework of Agile Command and Control 14:30: Adrienne Raglin and Christian Schlesiger– Data Analyzer Software: a Knowledge System Supporting Coalition and Team Information Sharing KSCO - Coalition C2 and Collaboration Session Chair: Michal Pěchouček 15:30: David Mott, Yunfeng Zhang, SoheilEshghi, Cheryl Giammanco and Troy Kelley – A Framework for Modelling the Effect of Emotion on Uncritical Reasoning 16:00: Austin Tate and Jeffrey Hansberger – Virtual Operations Centres for Coalition Operations and Distributed Team Collaboration 16:30: Jitu Patel and Peter Houghton – Where are the Knowledge Systems? – Understanding obstacles to technology adoption

6. KSCO Further Information and Involvement KSCO Event Information, papers and presentations, Binniscenario materials, coalition experimentation materials and documentation: http://ksco.info We encourage your participation… In addressing key coalition and technical drivers In seeking operational opportunities In creating collaborative projects In future experiments and integrated technology demonstrations